Nov 9, 2014
A Shop for the SeasonBy Rae YostGlobeGazette.com

Fertile, IA – JoAnn Kaasa blends creativity and practicality in the hand-crafted items available in her store Humble Beginnings, just northeast of Fertile on Iowa Highway 9.

“Over here we have the mailbox covers,” Kaasa said as she walked to a mailbox covered in winter and Christmas decorations.

Kaasa attaches bulbs, pine cones and other items to a clothesline wire to create a decoration that can be wrapped over a rural or city residential mailbox.

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